I have a news overview page, and a folder of php files I would like to individually include. Rather than manually including each one into my overview page, I thought I would use php to scan the folder for php files, and print them out as an include statement.
I have the following code:
<?php $articles = glob("/assets/news/form/*.php"); ?>
<?php
if(count($articles)) {
natcasesort($articles);
foreach($articles as $article) {
?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/$article"); ?>
<?php
}} else {
echo "Sorry, no articles to display!";
}
?>
I get no syntax with this, but I do not receive any output. Just a blank space where the articles should be.
The output I am wanting is something like this:
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/1.php"); ?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/2.php"); ?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/3.php"); ?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/4.php"); ?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/5.php"); ?>
<?php include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/overview/6.php"); ?>
Ultimately I am wanting to write a php function that scans a folder in ROOT/assets/news/form/
for all php files, and include all the files with the same name from the folder ROOT/assets/news/overview
.
My news overview page is currently in /news/index.php
Can anyone help me out with this?
Here, give this a whirl: (TESTED)
Tested on my server using absolute
path.
<?php
// path to .php files must be absolute path
// example: /server/user/f/fred/forms/*.php
// May have to modify your path if it's not absolute
// You may have to use this, if doesn't work
// $articles = glob("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/forms/*.php");
$articles = glob("/assets/news/forms/*.php");
if(count($articles)) {
natcasesort($articles);
// rsort($articles); // use rsort for descending order
foreach($articles as $article) {
$article = basename($article);
// You may have to use this, if doesn't work
// include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/forms/$article");
include("$_SERVER[DOCUMENT_ROOT]/assets/news/forms/$article");
}
}
else {
echo "Sorry, no articles.";
}
?>